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Category: 8 – Best Building Project – General Contractor (Under $10M)
Contractor: Turner Construction Company
Project Name: Pepsi Center Club Lexus and Storage Annex
The Pepsi Club Lexus is a first class, exclusive, premium dining space with two full service bars
and a full service kitchen that provides court-level access to Avalanche and Nuggets athletes
while also providing a convenient VIP entrance to the arena area. Turner's work on this project
also included construction of a 24,000SF storage annex for facility staging and storing space,
facilities workshops, and covered player parking. Total construction value was $8.5M.
The construction scope for this project had some unique challenges such as contaminated soils
and construction of a new Denver main sanitary sewer line to replace the 100 year old 48" brick
sewer line that originally ran through the footprint of Storage Annex.
On top of managing the engineering and construction challenges, Turner successfully navigated
the complexity of working in a facility occupied by two professional sports teams with game and
events that could not be missed or rescheduled. The Turner team did this at the Pepsi Center by
working nights, weekends, and early mornings behind sound insulated temporary walls to ensure
all events went on as planned without any interruption. Turner had construction areas bordering
and crossing over active show/concert flow areas. The Turner management team coordinated
heavily with event operations and security/public safety staff for more than 40 concerts and 60
games for the Nuggets, Avalanche, and Mammoth teams during the duration of this project.
During the first few days of excavation for the sanitary sewer pipeline we discovered coal
contaminated soils and continued to encounter them on the remainder of the excavation for the
job site. This discovery yielded the need for an environmental engineer to be present during all
excavation work and also required our team to closely manage the export of the coal
contaminated fill and import of engineered fill. Turner managed this un-expected challenge
without impact to the facility by getting dedicated trucking assistance from our site utilities and
earthwork subcontractors. We stock piled the soil in a controlled area on site until it could be
properly exported to the landfill.
The City of Denver required that Turner Construction complete the sanitary sewer portion of
work prior to releasing the building permit for the remainder of the project. Denver did however
allow us to proceed with the Lexus Club demolition and installation up to the point of first
inspections. This was referred to in Denver as an "early start permit." The city of Denver
required us to complete the sanitary sewer and video the lines prior to release of the Lexus Club
building permit and Storage Annex building permit. Turner Construction and our subcontractor
team installed over 380 LF of new 42” PVC sanitary sewer piping to re-route the sanitary sewer
main around the foundation of the new storage annex building. We had to bypass pump the
sewage above ground 24 hours per day over the course of six weeks through numerous summer
concert events and heavy semi- trailer traffic. We heavily coordinated the transitions with the
Pepsi Center events to minimize impact to the Avalanche, Nuggest, concerts, and events by
creating a six week pull plan schedule identifying every work activity and inspection. We used
this plan to coordinate our activities around the needs of the Pepsi Center and create a successful
atmosphere for all parties to complete their work and preparations for weekly events.
The Turner team for this project recently won an award from Liberty Mutual Insurance (Agent -
Chris Volz) for Outstanding Safety Performance. The Turner team and associated trade partners
worked over 60,000 man hours without any recordable incidents. Liberty Mutual also performed
site visits every 6 weeks and found Turner to be excelling in Commercial Construction safety
practices and subcontractor pre-planning. This is the first award of its kind given to this volume
of project by Liberty Mutual.
Turner Construction utilized the following to create a culture of safety and Lean principles on
this project: pre-activity meetings with every subcontractor to discuss scope, specifications and
drawings prior to commencing work on site, daily foreman huddles, weekly subcontractor
coordination pull planning meetings, daily safety walks with safety representatives from
subcontractors, five worker lunches to discuss safety improvements on the job site, Google drive
daily construction reports, nothing hits the ground, everything on wheels, and elevated cut
stations with trash bins beneath.
On this project we utilized pull plan scheduling to identifying every work activity and inspection
down to the day. We used this plan to coordinate our activities around the needs of the Pepsi
Center and create a successful atmosphere for all parties to complete their work.
Turner Construction utilized the company wide Quality Gold Star Program on this project. This
program includes pre-activity meetings with every subcontractor two weeks prior to work
beginning. In the pre-activity meetings we do a full review of all submittals, RFIs, contract
scope, safety, and drawings/specifications. Our team utilized the PlanGrid software for document
control and sharing. This program was accessible on phones and iPads and allowed all
subcontractors to have access to all of the drawings, specifications, RFIs and submittals in the
field with instant updating. Turner also utilized best practice checklists to review work as it was
being installed. Turner continuously pursues a culture of high quality work for our clients and
our repeat business reflects this commitment.
Design was a big concern for this project, as Club Lexus caters to the most elite clientele in the
building. The Pepsi Center wanted to wow not only the local clients, but also to raise the bar for
those visiting from competing markets. This proved to be a challenge because we were
converting an existing storage room with a lot of non-moveable constraints. The result is a
visually stimulating space that draws your eye and keeps you focused on the many activation
zones while downplaying the overhead equipment. While we had challenges to work around on
the interior, we embraced the blank canvas opportunity to draw crowds in by building a new
all-glass glowing showpiece entrance to the Club. Overall, the design has been well received and
has brought new life into the pregame and postgame fan experience that had been lacking.
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